Sleeve steaming and pressing device



Mmh 31, 1925. 1,531,471

. ZEPPITZ SLEEVE STEAMING AND PRESSING DEVICE Filed liu-ch 5, 1924 Patented Mar. 31, 1925.

UNTD STATES ANTON ZEPPTZ, OF CHICAGO, LLINOIS.

SLEEVE STEAIVING AND ERESSING DEVICE.

Application led March 5, 1924. Scritti No. 696,917.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTON Znrrrrz, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Sleeve Steaming and Pressing Devices, of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in sleeve steaming and pressing devices, and the object of the invention is to provide such a device with mounting means for supporting it horizontally from a supporting stand in operative position, and also for moving it into a depending position adjacent said supporting stand and out of the way when not in use.

@ther objects will appear' hereinafter.

The invention consists in the combinations end arrangements of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and in which,

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of my invention, showing the sleeve steaming member in horizontal operative position;

Fig. 2 is a front elevation thereof, showing in full lines the sleeve steaming member .in its operative position and showing in dotted lines said member in its depending inoperative position; and

3 is an enlarged sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

The preferred form of construction includes a support or stand 5 which is fastened to the wall 6 by means of bracket members or angle irons 7 and suitable screws 8, or in any suitable manner. The stand 5 is preferably arranged in the form of a case or is provided with a space 5 at the upper end, and a steam supplying conduit 9 with a control valve 9 is mounted through the wall of said stand and includes a plurality of connected pipes of varying diameters to4 provide a step-up portion 10 extending outward of said stand. An elbow 11 is rotatably mounted on the outer end of said step-up portion and a stub pipe 12 is connected to the free end of said elbow, a second elbow 13 being rotatably attached to the stub pipe. On this elbow 13 is mounted the sleeve supporting and steaming member 14, which is arranged to tit and to be inserted within the interior of the sleeve.

The sleeve supporting and steaming member le preferably includes a conduit 15 provided with a plurality of rows of perforations 1G, and around this conduit is placed a wire net 17 over which is fastened the covering means of vpress cloth 18. The conduit 15 is fastened in the elbow 13 by threading' it therein or in any convenient manner.

The member 111 and the mounting means therefor are thus arranged to extend member 14 horizontally from the stand 5 to support and steam a sleeve drawn over said member during the pressing operation, while steam is admitted through the opened valve 9 and also to swing said member 14 on the elbows 11 and 18 to a depending position, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, to place it out of the way when not in use.

Means is' provided for firmly holding member 14 in its horizontal or loperative, position, this means includes a bracket 19 fastened on stand 5, and a pair of arms 2() swingably mounted on said bracket by means of a bolt 21'passing through sleeves on said arms` and through the ends of said bracket and being fastened to said sleeves.;

with pins 22 or thelike. A nut 23 is used on said bolt to hold the bolt and therewith the sleeves of the arms 2()v frictionally in position on the ends of the bracket 19. The arms may be swung upward to retain the member 14 in its horizontal or operative position, and may be swung downward, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1, to permit said member 14 to be swung into its depending or inoperative position, as indicated in F ig. 2.

`While l have illustrated and described the preferred form of construction for carrying my invention into effect, this is capable of variation and modification without departing from the spirit of the invention. I, therefore, do not wish to be limited to the precise details of construction set forth, but desire to avail myself of such variations and modifications as come within the scope of the appended claims.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent is: p

1. device comprising a stand, conduit means extending transversely therefrom, an elbow rotatably mounted on said conduit means', a second elbow rotatably connected with said first elbow, and sleeve entering and steaming means mounted on said second elbow to be extended transversely from or to be suspended along side of said stand.

2. A device comprising a stand, conduit means extending transversely therefrom, an elbow rotatably connected tov said conduit means, a second elbow rotatably connected with said i'irst elbow, sleeve entering and steaming means carried by said second elbow to be extended transversely from said stand or to be suspended along side of said stand, and means on said stand movable into engagement with said sleeve steam-ing means for holding it in its extended opera-- tive position.

3. A device comprising a stand, conduit means with a step-up portion mounted thereinv and extending transversely therefrom and includ-ing a series of interiorly connected pipes which increase in diameter outwardly to reduce the pressure of steam passing therethrough, a pair of connected elbows mounted on said conduit means and arranged to move with respect to said conduit means and with respect to each other, and sleeve entering and steaming means mounted on said elbows to be extended transversely from said stand or to be suspended along side thereof. 4

A device comprising a. stand, conduit means with a step-up portion mounted therein and' extending transversely therefrom, an elbow rotatably mounted en said conduit means, a second elbow rotatably mounted on said first elbow, sleeve entering and steaming means mounted on sait` second elbow to be extended from or suspended along side of said stand, and a pair of arms swingably mounted on said stand to engage mener/1 and hold said sleeve steaming means in extended operative position.

5. A device comprising a supporting stand, conduit means with a step-up portion mounted therein and extending transversely therefrom, an elbow rotatably mounted on said conduit means, a second elbow rotatably mounted on said first elbow, a perforated tubular member covered with wire net and cloth therea-round mounted on said second elbow and adapted to be inserted in a sleeve for supporting and steaming same, said tubular member being arranged with said elbow tol be extended transversly from said sta-nd or suspended along side of said stand by swinging said elbows, and a pair of arms mounted on. said stand to enga-ge and hold said sleeve steaming means in extended operative pesition.

6. A device comprisingl a stand, conduit means mounted in and extending transversely therefrom, sleeve enteringandi steaming means rotatably mounted on said conduit means by the use of elbows to extend said conduit means transversely from said stand or to be suspended ale-ng side thereof, bracket m-eans on said stan-d, and a pair of arms swin-gably mounted in said bracket means and being movable int-o engagement with said sleeve steaming means to hold itin extended operati've position.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speciication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ANTON ZEPPITZ. ltitnesses Jesi-IIIA R. H. Po'r'rs, MARGARET AUER. 

